Jan 15, 2015 thus, coastal vulnerability assessment methods have been developed to identify and manage the vulnerable areas over the coast. Acunetix vulnerability testing report 2017 acunetix. This chapter outlines aspects of vulnerability leading to disasters, describing how to understand vulnerability better in order to better understand and deal with. This research combines the united states geological survey s usgs costal vulnerability index cvi1 and the gomitz and whites coastal vulnerability index cvi2 with the social and coastal counties of. Public risk perceptions and adaptation to climate change in nonmetropolitan coastal communities christopher david button benvst hons adelaide school of social sciences discipline of geography, environment and population the university of adelaide, south australia. Gis based methodology to assess the relative vulnerability index of buildings to coastal hazards coastal karaikal a case study 1 2t arumugam, m. The results indicate that the coastal vulnerability index for the entire coast of accra is 7. The cvi assesses the relative physical vulnerability of the coast. Understanding livelihood vulnerability to climate change. Vulnerability index summary chronic street homelessness, i.
Each year the acunetix team compiles a vulnerability testing report based on data from acunetix online. A coastal vulnerability index cvi was used to map the relative vulnerability of the coast to future sealevel rise within gulf islands national seashore in mississippi and florida. As such, a specific task of the risckit project task 2. Climate change vulnerability assessment for natural resources. Examples of coastal resource analysis in developing countries a different approach to screening assessment has been applied in mombasa and dar es salam, where global datasets were used to map and analyse each city. Coastal vulnerability index cvi, sealevel rise, westfjords, coastal zone management. Coastal vulnerability and climate change in australia. Coastal vulnerability index making cities resilient.
An assessment of the vulnerability to erosion of the coastal. An holistic approach to beach erosion vulnerability. Design and use of composite indices in assessments of climate change vulnerability and resilience 1 1. Department of geology, university of madras, chennai 600 025, india. On questions of gender, the study found that femaleheaded households were marginally more vulnerable than maleheaded households. The index allows the six physical variables to be related in a quantifiable manner. Conceptual and methodological framework two 2 composite index frameworks were constructed. The square root of product mean cvi 5 method was adopted for this study. In the indian context, several vulnerability studies have been taken for the east coast as well as west coast for sea level rise using physical variables as an input to the coastal vulnerability index. The coastal vulnerability index cvi is one of the most commonly used and simple methods to assess coastal vulnerability to sea level rise, in particular. Once each section of coastline is assigned a risk value based on each specific data variable, the coastal vulnerability index is calculated as the square root of the geometric mean, or the square root of the product of the ranked variables divided by the total number of variables as. Coastal vulnerability assessment of puducherry coast, india.
View coastal vulnerability assessment research papers on academia. Understanding vulnerability to understand disasters. Since the publication of cutters social vulnerability index sovi there have been numerous indices constructed using principal components analysis pca. The coastal vulnerability index cvi is a composite overlay model of geospatial hazard indicators including geomorphology, slope, flood prone areas, storm surge inundation scenarios, poorly drained soils, and erosionprone areas. By definition then, risk and vulnerability are bound up with a propoor growth strategy. New jerseys coastal community vulnerability assessment.
New jersey s coastal community vulnerability assessment and mapping protocol. The majority have been similar implementations of sovi in jurisdictions outside of the usa using alternative variables, but some have used pca in alternative contexts, including with data. Far from implying above, be due to anthropogenic causes as well as natural. Coastal vulnerability assessment studies over india.
It is based on a numerical approximation of the principal physical. An index to determine vulnerability of communities in a. However, this studycan provide a possible foundation for future work, especially if relevant wind and wave data are incorporated. Vulnerability summary for the week of june 19, 2017 cisa. Coastal vulnerability index cvi for gulf islands national. Vulnerability index summary aids foundation of chicago. Vulnerability is the inability to resist a hazard or to respond when a disaster has occurred. The cvi allows the six variables to be related in a quantifiable manner. A coastal vulnerability index cvi was constructed to estimate the level of vulnerability of a coastline approximately 48. For instance, people who live on plains are more vulnerable to floods than people who live higher up. Assessment of coastal vulnerability to climate change hazards. In actual fact, vulnerability depends on several factors, such as peoples age and state of health, local.
The march 2008 2nd annual homeless assessment report to congress from hud department of housing. Manage vulnerabilities vuln capability description purpose provides the department or agency da visibility into the known vulnerabilities present on their networks. A coastal vulnerability index cvi was used to map the relative vulnerability of the coast to future sealevel rise within fire island national seashore in new york. Building vulnerability assessment checklist, pages 146 to 192. Climate change vulnerability assessment for natural. This paper outlines the broad technique used to determine the cvi for kzn, which identifies zones of risk, and assesses. The index high value means very high vulnerability is different for different areas.
Thus, coastal vulnerability assessment methods have been developed to identify and manage the vulnerable areas over the coast. The authors in this index referred to coastal erosion vulnerability, either than coastal. Aug 15, 2014 the idea of the beach vulnerability index bvi originates from the coastal vulnerability index developed by gornitz et. This report was produced under united states agency for international development usaid cooperative agreement no. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. A coastal vulnerability index for kwazulunatal, south africa. New jersey s coastal community vulnerability assessment and mapping protocol suggested citation.
Dec 31, 2012 the index high value means very high vulnerability is different for different areas. A coastal community vulnerability index ccvi was constructed to evaluate the vulnerability of coastal communities buhangin, pingit, reserva, sabang, and zabali in the municipality of baler, aurora, philippines. Cge training materials for vulnerability and adaptation. Coastal vulnerability assessment research papers academia. The vulnerability index was estimated for the three sections by determining their relative risk factors. Overall, the study suggests that the livelihood vulnerability index can be broadly applied in comparable settings in smallisland developing states and other developing countries. One obvious link comes from recognising vulnerability as a cause, symptom and constituent part of chronic poverty prowse, 2003, quoted in van ginneken, 2005. Assessment of coastal vulnerability to climate change. This paper outlines the broad technique used to determine the cvi for kzn, which identifies zones of. Handbook for vulnerability mapping eu asia pro eco project disaster reduction through awareness, preparedness and prevention mechanisms in coastal settlements in asia demonstration in tourism destinations janet edwards martin gustafsson barbro naslundlandenmark november 2007 swedish rescue services agency. New jerseys coastal community vulnerability assessment and. Cge training materials for vulnerability and adaptation assessment page 8 of 52 box 51 cont.
An hrva is a critical part of every emergency program and is a requirement mandated by the local. A comparative analysis of disaster risk, vulnerability and. Financial assistance provided by the coastal zone management act of. This index, without being a predictive tool of the future position of the coastline, provides a rankbased vulnerability assessment, permitting a comparative classification of the various coastal stretches, which allows scientists and decision makers to identify portions of the coast that are at a higher risk. Development of a coastal vulnerability index implication that the needs of the present generation may coastal system may, as acknowledged in the excerpts given indeed be met as a right turner 1993. Assessing coastal vulnerability index to climate change. Cvi is a static model that represents lands that are presently vulnerable. Coastal vulnerability index cvi for fire island national. This research combines the united states geological survey s usgs costal vulnerability index cvi1 and the gomitz and whites coastal vulnerability index cvi2 with the social and coastal counties of the united states. Once its use to compare the vulnerability of a range of cities under current conditions has been demonstrated, it is used to study the impact of. So how do notions of risk and vulnerability fit into this agenda. The coastal vulnerability index cvi is one of the most commonly used and simple methods to assess coastal vulnerability to sea level rise, in particular due to erosion andor inundation gornitz et al. The coastal vulnerability index cvi presented here is similar to that used by gornitz et al.
Contents executive summary vii what climate change is possible for australia. The idea of the beach vulnerability index bvi originates from the coastal vulnerability index developed by gornitz et. Indexbased tools are particularly useful to make a. Assessing climate risk and vulnerability regarding the activities identified under the focus area. To investigate the implications of spatial scale in depicting coastal hazard risk, coastal vulnerability indices were developed at national northern ireland, local authority and site levels. Climatechange vulnerability assessment for priority wildlife species of the navajo nation mawdsley and lamb 20 the primary methodology for assessing high and low vulnerability in this report is adapted from the natureserve ccvi, a spreadsheetbased tool that estimates a species relative vulnerability to climate change. Known vulnerabilities are those with a common vulnerability enumeration cve identifier or. In particular, the brief defines adaptive capacity as a combination of a societys ex ante i. The coastal vulnerability index cvi presented here is the same as that used in thieler and hammarklose 1999 and is similar to that used in gornitz and others 1994, as well as to the sensitivity index employed by shaw and others 1998. Reconciling different concepts of risk and vulnerability.
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